Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1910 — AIR RECORD BROKEN BY TWO AERONAUTS [ARTICLE]

AIR RECORD BROKEN BY TWO AERONAUTS

Details sf Hie Flight by Hawley and Post Hawley and Post, of the America 11, are safe; not only that, but they Have broken the world s record for dis tance travelled in a balloon. A dis patch announcing the safety of the balloonists, of whom no certain news had been heard since the start on Oct. 17, was received at the Aero club Wednesday afternoon. It was signed by Hawley and Post, and read: “St. Ambroise, Sagueny, Quebec, Oct. 26. —Landed near Peribcnka fiver, north of Lake Chflogoma. on nineteenth. Alt well; returning.” A dispatch received in New York from Montreal, Quebec, dated Oct. 27. says: • “Hawley and Post, the Ameri ca II aeronauts, arrived at 10 o’clock last night at Chicoutimi. They were in the air forty-six hours in all, and traveled approximately 1,450 miles. They landed on Wednesday of last week at Lake Dane Defallen, five miles east of Lake Petsgammo. They have left the balloon behind them in good condition. They had to sleep out in the cold night air three nights. Mr. Post, in describing the trip, said that while they had to husband their strength their hardships were inconsiderable. Alter four days’ tramping through the brush they came upon a trapper’s hut and were received hos* pitably.” When the excitement had cooled down a bit the thoughts of every one at the Aero club turned to the question, “Did they beat the Dusseldorf II?” Samuel F. Perkins, who with Pilot Hans' Gericke manned the Dusseldorf 11, led the rush for the chart room. It took some time to figure the thing out. but the club experts finally decided that the America II had landed about 75 miles ahead of the Dusseldorf 11, and that the race and world’s record was theirs. The Dusseldorf II came to earth near Kiskisink, Quebec, which is estimated to be about 1 250 miles from the starting point and was the world’s record until the America II reported. If the Aero club experts figured; the thing right, the America IPs flight was 1,325 miles in an air line from St. Louis. Later advices received atySt. Louis from Lewis Spindler, of the St. Louis Aero club, who was in charge of the search for Hawley and Post in Ontario, gives the America ll’s landing place as “About 120 miles northeast of Coocooche, Quebec.” Mr. Spdinler’s dispatch says that Coocooche, which is the point at which the Germania landed last Wednesday, is 1,185 miles from St. Louis in an air line, and that Hawley and Post’s distance is figured by him as 1,305 miles from the starting point. It doesn’t matter whether it is 1.305 or 1,325. either distance is the world’s record, which before this race had been set at 1,1.93 miles by Count Henry De La Vaulx in. a flight from Vincennes, France, to Korostichev, Russia, in 1900. While the official announcement will not be made for some time, the figuring of the Aero club people and the contestants themselves, places the leading balloons in the following order: America 11, (1); Dus*seldorf 11, (2); Germania, (3). The telegram sent from St. Ambroise by Hawley and Post shows that they cameL to earth on the same day that the Dusseldorf landed and that the difficulties of travel were so great that it took them a whole week to get back to the end of a telegraph wire St. Ambroise is not big enough to get on the map. but it is about forty miles north of Chicoutimi, where the Caguenay river steamers make their last stop northward bound. How many of those seven days were spent in an unaided struggle with the wilderness cannot be; known until Hawley and his companion send details.